Survey: 3 Jacksonville suburbs named in country's Top 25

According to real estate blog movato.com, Jacksonville Beach is the seventh-most exciting suburb in the U.S.

Feel the excitement? You will when you go to Jacksonville Beach, which is now the seventh-most exciting suburb in the U.S. That’s according to the stats people at Movoto.com, a real-estate blog that crunches numbers to come up with its frequent top 10 lists.

Jacksonville Beach fared best in the categories of nightlife and live music on a per-capita basis (it ranked second in each), with shout-outs given to Lynch’s Irish Pub, Engine 15 and the Shim Sham Room. It also scored well for “active life” opportunities (fourth) and its percentage of young people (13th). That was enough to overcome a poor ranking (138th) for its prevalence of fast-food joints, which to Movoto is a bad thing.

Its neighbors, Neptune Beach and Atlantic Beach, finished out of the top 10 but didn’t do too poorly, tying at 21 on the list. Overall, Cambridge, Mass., came out tops, while Miami Beach was fourth.